Trade Boom To Keep Pace Until Summer
Washington reports optimistic predictions from tapping economists that the fall recovery gains will stay strong through winter and into the summer of 1940. Backlogs in steel and durable goods, heavy buying by warring European powers, and anticipated labor settlement moves underpin the forecast, with inventories expected to rise by March and production exceeding 125 percent of the 1923-25 average.
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Industrial Accidents Kill 284 in 10 Months West Virginia
West Virginia reports 284 workers died in the first ten months of 1939 from industrial accidents while highway crashes killed 274. Will C. Easley notes mine disasters left 483 children under 16 fatherless and 200 widows without wage earners. Mines report blames carelessness and calls for improved supervision and safety measures.
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West Virginia
Will C. Easley
Norris urges focus on U.S. domestic issues for defense
Senator Norris says the United States is unlikely to enter the European war and urges Congress to prioritize domestic problems. He calls for tackling unemployment, drought rehabilitation, and expanding the federal power program to build a real national defense.
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Italy keeps watch as army kept under arms decree
Rome dispatch reports a government decree keeps about 1.5 million Italian soldiers under arms. The decree authorizes active service for reservist classes 1962 1903 1910 and 1913 called up in August for 10 weeks training and extends service for all other conscripts and enlisted men beyond their current terms.
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Rome
Six U S Subs Sent to Asia and Officials Meet
Six American submarines are dispatched to the Far East as three top U S officials plan a policy conference in Manila. Officials say the actions may indirectly influence the looming clash with Japan over China policy, with a decisive turn hoped by January 26.
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Lawyer called martyr after sober test of drunkometer
Gary Indiana November 18. Richard S Kaplan Gary Safety Council President drank four ounces of two year old bourbon to test the drunkometer. The breath sample after an hour showed .164 percent alcohol. City Judge William Fletcher accepts drunkometer results in drunken driving cases but not intoxication cases. Kaplan called himself a martyr and said the test was for scientific purposes only.
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Roosevelt Plans July Completion for Hyde Park Library
President Roosevelt announced the privately built library housing 6,000,000 papers will be completed by July 1, 1940 and opened about a year later. Ceremonies at the Hyde Park estate will feature Archibald MacLeish and R D W Connor with radio remarks at 3 p.m. EST. Frank C. Walker raised the funds and Rev. Frank R. Wilson will deliver the benediction.
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Frank C. Walker
Frank R. Wilson
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William D. Hassett
Gazette Comics On Radio Today
The Katzenjammer Kids join The Gazette comic stop on WGKV this morning at 9. The weekly Uncle Joe Reads the Funnies will broaden to include this Sunday feature. Tune to 1500 to hear the program.
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Eleven New Forest Fires Start Overnight
Eleven new fires started yesterday to create new work and add hazards for 2600 smoke choked foresters ordered on another night of duty to keep spread in check. No wind aided efforts as humidity rose and a few showers teased, while crews fought 100 blazes and supervisors urged stronger safety measures. Injuries included Delmar Artis of Dawes Kana wha county pinned by a falling tree while battling a blaze on Slaugh.
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Barometer Taxes Show Big Increases in October
State barometer taxes on consumers sales gasoline and beer experienced sharp rises in October versus the same month in 1938. Tax Commissioner Ernest K James said October collections totaled 847603.10 for consumer sales up from 777139.73 gasoline receipts rose to 1048716.60 from 886074.30 and beer barrel tax climbed to 71913.51 from 59913.28.
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Ernest K. James
Police Tag Parkers On Kanawha Parkway
Police under Chief W A Tully direct traffic officers to warn and tag parkers on the south curb of Kanawha Parkway to curb angle parking after new pavement opening. No tow cars used but many vehicles remain, especially near Capital-dale. Next, owners via license plates will be summoned to police court. Tully plans motorcycle units and cruisers to deter speeding on the parkway and Lee Fayette street bridge approaches.
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Three Bomb Blasts Rock Piccadilly Area in London
Three bomb explosions hit central Piccadilly Circus in London as air raid warnings sounded along the Essex coast. No casualties were reported. damage appeared limited to a theater front and shop windows amid the blackout and wartime fear.
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Swiss Air Duel Wounds Three in Basel Incident
A Swiss girl, a boy, and a Swiss soldier were seriously wounded by flying shrapnel as German anti-aircraft gunners and French bombers clashed overhead. Bombs exploded on Swiss territory. a nearby house was struck. Basel, a banking hub on the Rhine, lies near French and German lines.
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Il Duce Warns Of War's Effects
Il Duce Mussolini, addressing Italy's Fascist leaders, says the European conflict has become a world war from social and economic viewpoints. He urges intensified Italy self sufficiency and dismisses pre war economic debates as absurdly academic.
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Readers warned on war news bias and front-line silence
The Gazette notes that war reporting is censored and urges readers to distinguish fact from propaganda. It argues that in the current conflict it is better for armies to oppose with little or no bloodshed than to risk mass slaughter in indecisive assaults.
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Simon Bolivar Disaster Costs Dutch Liner Life And Injury
The Royal Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar sank in the North Sea after hitting a twin mine, an act the British admiralty says was laid by the German navy. At least 140 lives were lost and 124 were injured as the ship, carrying refugees including Germans bound for New York via the West Indies, capsized off England's eastern coast in the war's largest civilian catastrophe to date.
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Executions Rise as Nazi Martial Law Expands in Bohemia
In Prague and five nearby districts, three more persons are executed amid martial law measures aimed at stamping out anti-German acts. President Emil Hacha warns against further Czech sacrifices as demonstrations are quelled by public force. Similar incidents reported in Brno signal broader crackdown.
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Seventy Banks Pay Out 1.72 Million in 1935
Banking Commissioner George Ward announced that 70 closed state banks paid $1,721,438 in the year ended Sept 30 to common creditors. Depositors received $1,281,587.21 and $439,851.34 went to preferred creditors. Total claims at bank closures were $38,245,975.35 with 64.25 percent of dividends paid.
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Rescue ships crippled by chain mine near bow
Seventeen refugees in critical condition are moved to special accommodation after the explosion on a naval rescue ship. The vessel was struck on both sides near the bow by two globes of a chain mine, killing the master Capt. H. Voorspury and many others as fires broke out from ruptured fuel lines.
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Aoe Hyee
Afterteea
H. Voorspury
Simon Bolia
Parkway Study for South Charleston Highway Plan
City officials study a new super highway for South Charleston to replace old street car tracks. Road Commissioner Burr H. Li discusses potential sale of Midland trail properties and related liens to prevent building on Leecees lands as part of the project.
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Leecees
Pinehase
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